# The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner has 158,827 words.

## At a glance

Book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.

- **Author:** [Mark Twain](https://musael.com/books/authors/mark-twain.md), [Charles Dudley Warner](https://musael.com/books/authors/charles-dudley-warner.md) (1835–1910)
- **First published:** 1873
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** humorous fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 158,827
- **Reading time:** 10 h 35 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 5 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 14 min | 27 days |
| 250 wpm | 10 h 35 min | 22 days |
| 300 wpm | 8 h 49 min | 18 days |

## Read or listen

The Gilded Age is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3178

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 158,827
- Chapters: 70
- Dialogue: 35% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3178 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16385809
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Age%3A_A_Tale_of_Today
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15290078W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3178

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-gilded-age